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Association 2023 logistics
August 19, 2023 Dear Friends, We are looking forward to being together, either in person or via Zoom, for our Association meeting on Saturday, October 7th. You have received a letter from Bruce detailing his inspiration as well as initial readings for this year’s meeting. (If you did not receive this email, please contact Ann Matthiesen, via cellphone (973) 876-9042 or via email ann.matthiesen@icloud.com.) Logistics The meeting will be held at Sixth Church, Portland. Please use the entrance on the south side of the edifice, at 915 SW Columbia Street. Also, please plan on arriving well before 9AM to ensure you have time to check in and be settled before…
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The Monitor: hope, agency and dignity
This is the OpEd about the current quality of news, and how a journalist can’t read much of it—with a few exceptions, one being The Christian Science Monitor. The author writes: “There aren’t many major news outlets systematically creating news for humans yet, but one that I admire (and now subscribe to) is the Christian Science Monitor. Each issue features reporting from around the globe, vivid photos, brutal realities — right alongside hope, agency and dignity. Stories include a brief explainer called “Why we wrote this,” treating readers like respected partners. It’s a kind of low-ego, high-curiosity journalism that I’ve started trying to emulate in my own work.” Opinion: I…
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Horse healing article
Here’s the news report of the horse healing that Bruce related at A22: A ‘healing miracle’ after a horse falls 200 feet near Timberline Lodge https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2022/08/a-healing-miracle-after-a-horse-falls-200-feet-near-timberline-lodge.html
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Christianity’s Global Era
A conversation with Bruce Fitzwater by Warren Bolon, From the September 2008 issue of The Christian Science Journal To paraphrase Shakespeare, there is nothing foreign, but thinking makes it so. To Bruce Fitzwater, there are no actual foreign cultures or languages, only those that we’ve not yet attempted to understand. Raised on North America’s Pacific Rim in Portland, Oregon, Bruce has long been aware of the need to bridge the cultural divides between West and East. For two years early in his career, he taught philosophy and religion at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Following completion of course work for a master’s degree in philosophy, and after taking…
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Prayer for Progress in Government
Prayer for Progress in Government A spirituality.com chat with Bruce Fitzwater Bruce Fitzwater is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science from Portland, Oregon. He has been in the work of healing spiritually for over 30 years, and was a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship for 11 years. Bruce has traveled widely, to many different parts of the globe. This text has been edited for readability. To read and/or listen to the whole chat go to spirituality.com/chats/government. There’s a temptation to feel overwhelmed by the national and international issues facing us today because they seem so big and beyond ourselves. How can we overcome these feelings,…
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God is not in the earthquake
by Bruce Fitzwater, From the October 2006 issue of The Christian Science Journal Humanity has long been victimized by erratic natural forces, acts of God, as they are commonly called. Is this always to be? Not if we are willing to address the challenge through divine Science, beginning with the insight revealed to Elijah about the divine Ego. The Bible relates that Elijah, fleeing death from an enraged Queen Jezebel, ascended Mount Horeb seeking consolation from his God. There, an awesome spectacle of violent physical forces paraded before him. First a powerful rock-smashing wind, then an earthquake, and finally, fire. But Elijah realized “the Lord was not in the…